I think rather that the sense here is "in a figurative sense." That is to
say, Abraham received Isaac, whom he did in fact offer up before the Lord,
BACK FROM DEATH--not in the literal sense that Isaac was dead and raised to
new life, but that Isaac's life was forfeit--Abraham had surrendered it to
God to do with as God saw fit, so that when God saw fit for Isaac to live
as Abraham's heir, Abraham did, in a figurative sense, receive Isaac back
"from the dead."